CHILDREN, TEENS & ARTS IN HEALING
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THE EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES SUMMIT HEADS WEST
For seven years, the Expressive Therapies Summit has brought extraordinary experiential continuing education to New York City. Featuring all the arts and play therapies in a single event, over 900 professionals, students, artists, and interested others from over a dozen countries have gathered annually for this uniquely multimodal and multidisciplinary opportunity. Now, in collaboration with UCLArts & Healing, we've added a west coast Summit to our annual calendar.
Topics, Themes, Approaches
Multiculturalism • Autism & Special Needs • Phototherapy • Drum Circles • Yoga and Meditation • Eating Disorders & Body Image • Social Justice • Sand Therapy • Mindfulness • Stress & Anxiety • Ethics & Private Practice • Soul Collage • Vocal Psychotherapy • Community Arts • Doll Making • Clay Work • End of Life • Older Adults • De-Roling • Ethnodrama • Sound Healing • Children & Adolescents • Trauma-focused Treatment • Masks • Bookmaking • Neurorehabilitation • Medical Clowning • Touch Drawing • Cancer • Tape Sculpture • Digital Media • Assessment through Art • Military Populations • Authentic Movement • Mandalas • Resilience & Wellness • Sensory Challenges • Addiction • Cyberbullying • Professional Issues . . . and more!
Register for Any One or Combination of Days!
Join over professionals from around the country to learn leading-edge skills for your practice, network with like-minded professionals, and create from within.
FOR REGISTRATION AND FULL PROGRAM:
WWW.EXPRESSIVETHERAPIESSUMMIT.LA
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EARN 24 APT CREDITS!
Starbright Training Institute (STI) is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. The course will provide one CEU per hour. STI provider number with APT is #96-029 and STI maintains responsibility for the program.
Available only to licensed mental health practitioners or full-time graduate students in a graduate mental health program
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Working with Young People
THURSDAY, March 30
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Floortime and Healthy Development: An Interactive Treatment for Special Needs Children
Esther B. Hess, PhD, RPT-S
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Understanding Sensory Challenges: Effective Strategies for All Ages
Lori Baudino, BC-DMT, PsyD
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Disrupting Disruptive Student Behaviors with Compassion & Art Therapy
Suzanne Silverstein, MA, ATR
FRIDAY, March 31
10:00 am - 5:15 pm
Expressive Arts and Play for Autism and Special Needs: A Whole Brain Approach
Jane Ferris Richardson, EdD, LMHC, ATR-BC, RPT-S
Karen Howard, RMT, CEAP
Joanne Lara, MA, CCTC
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Cultivating Resilience in Children & Adolescents through Play Therapy & Creative Arts
David Crenshaw, PhD, ABPP, RPT-S
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Teaching Wisdom Skills to Children & Adolescents
Shani Robins, PhD
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Healing Their Fury: Research-Informed Play Therapy with Aggressive Children
David Crenshaw, PhD, ABPP, RPT-S
SATURDAY, April 1
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Engaging Resistant Adolescents: Practical Strategies for Clinicians and Others
Deb Brass, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Play Therapy through a Jungian Lens: Exploring the Inner Lives of Children & Adolescents
Maxine Bowden, MA, LMFT, RPT-S
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Music and Play: Channeling Childhood for Therapeutic Gain
Becky Wellman, PhD, LPMT, MT-BC
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Social, Emotional and Cognitive Growth through the Arts: The Key to Kids
Erica K. M. Curtis, LMFT, ATR-BC
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Tech Gone Wild: Sexting, Porn & Cyberbullying in Play Therapy and Counseling
Leslie Baker, MA, MFT, NCC
Mary Ruth Cross, MS, MFT, NCC, RPT-S
SUNDAY, April 2
10:00 am - 5:15 pm
Play Therapy Assessment & Treatment Approaches Featuring Sand, Play, and Art Therapies
Eliana Gil, PhD, LMFT, ATR, RPT-S
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Medical Clowning: Empowering Hospitalized Patients through Improv & Play
Zachary Steel
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Art-Based Therapy, Mindfulness & Self-Compassion for Children
Rebecca Bokoch, MA
Noah Hass-Cohen, MA, PsyD, ATR-BC
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Building Resiliency in Kids through Mindfulness, Meditation, and Imagination
Charlotte Reznick, PhD
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Expressive Writing as Activism
Kathleen Adams, MA, LPC
Mary Reynolds Thompson, CPCC, CAPF, CJF
Kate Thompson, MA, CJT
Perie J. Longo, PhD, PTR, LMFT
India Radfar, BA, CAPF
Ingrid Tegnér, MSW, M/S, CAPF
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Workshops Featuring Adolescent-Friendly Activities
THURSDAY, MARCH 30
10:00 am - 5:15 pm
Re-Shaping Body Image: Tape Sculpture as Arts-Based Social Justice
Amanda Bechtel, MS, ATR-BC, LCPC, LCPAT
Laura Teoli, MS, ATR-BC, LPC
Laura Wood, PhD, RDT-BCT, LMHC, CCLS
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Challenging Oppression with Expression: RAPtivism, Movement, and Mindfulness
Meg Chang, EdD, BC-DMT, LCAT
Aisha Fukushima
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Narradrama for Neural Re-wiring and Positive Change
Pam Dunne, PhD, RDT/BCT
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Ragdolls & Writing: Transforming Trauma, Facilitating Growth
Ebony Williams, MFA, MA
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Sing for Yourself: A Daily Practice for Freedom of Expression
Kate Richards Geller, MA, MT-BC, LCAT
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Stressbusting: Writing Through Troubled Times
Kathleen (Kay) Adams, LPC
FRIDAY, MARCH 31
10:00 am - 5:15 pm
Books by Hand: Holding Secrets
Linney Wix, PhD, ATR-BC
10:00 am - 5:15 pm
Performance as a Therapeutic Act: Transforming Self-Defeating Life Scripts through Drama Therapy
Jennifer Stuckert-Knapp, RDT, LMFT
Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Discovering & Strengthening Parts of Self through Mask Work and Enactment
Laura L. Wood, PhD, LMHC, RDT/BCT, CCLS
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Mindful Games for Enhancing Attention, Balance and Compassion
Susan Kaiser-Greenland, JD
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Paper Puppet People, Fairytales, and Neuroscience
Lani A. Gerity, DA, ATR
Susan Ainlay Anand, ATR-BC, ATCS
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Treating Chemical & Behavioral Addiction through Music Therapy
Tim Ringgold, MT-BC
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Clay Worlds & Stories for Creating Resilient, Inclusive Communities
Susan Ainlay Anand, ATR-BC, ATCS
Lani A. Gerity, DA, ATR
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Diversity Awareness in Groups through Role Play & Imaginal Enactment
Gary Raucher, MA, RDT/BCT, LMFT
Denise Boston, BFA, MA, PhD
F. Antonio Ramirez Hernandez, PsyD
SATURDAY, APRIL 1
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Animal Power in Clinical Work, Education & Spiritual Development
Linda Barnes, MS
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Listening to Clay: Janie Rhyne's Gestalt Art Experience
Josie Abbenante, ATR-BC, LPAT
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Music and Play: Channeling Childhood for Therapeutic Gain
Becky Wellman, PhD, LPMT, MT-BC
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Introduction to the Therapeutic Uses of Photography
Robert Irwin Wolf, MPS, ATR-BC, NCPsya, LP, LCAT
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Transformation of Failure & Self-Blame: Techniques from Theater of the Oppressed
Brent Blair, PhD
Mady Schutzman, PhD
SUNDAY, APRIL 2
10:00 am - 5:15 pm
Taming the Bully Within through Inner Family Healing
Lucia Capacchione, ATR, REAT, PhD
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Digital Media Arts: Therapeutic Interventions for Adolescents and Others
Jeffrey L. Jamerson, MA, PhD
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Eating Disorders: From Fear to Conscious Embodiment
Marybeth Weinstock, PhD, BC-DMT
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Integrating Empathic Listening & Creative Expression: The Art of Council
Camille Ameen
Jared Seide
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Tokens of Esteem and Affirmation: Artist Challenge Coins
Gretchen Miller, MA, ATR-BC, ACTP
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Digital Storytelling as a Therapeutic Intervention
Jeffrey Jamerson, MA, PhD
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Eco-Art Therapy: Expanding Your Practice through Connection with Nature
Ellen Speert, ATR-BC, REAT
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Mask Making: A Multicultural Process
Judy Leventhal, LCSW
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A Film by Judith A. Rubin
(The Neighborhood's Art Lady during the early years)
Judith A. Rubin, PhD, ATR-BC
Art therapist, Psychoanalyst, Author, Co-founder of Expressive Media
Jodi Smith, LCSW, RPT-S, CAAPT, Discussant
Immediate Past President, California Association for Play Therapy